Abstract: To provide a hologram recording composition capable of further improving diffraction characteristics and the transparency of a hologram. The present technology provides a hologram recording composition containing at least a chromic dye whose decolorized body has a structure containing a primary and/or secondary amino group, an epoxy monomer, and a polymerization initiator. The present technology also provides a hologram recording medium including a photosensitive layer containing at least a chromic dye whose decolorized body has a structure containing a primary and/or secondary amino group, an epoxy monomer, and a polymerization initiator. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a hologram optical element using the hologram recording medium. Moreover, the present technology also provides an optical device and an optical component using the hologram optical element.

Abstract: To provide a hologram recording composition that can further improve diffraction characteristics and transparency of a hologram. The present technology provides a hologram recording composition containing a heteropoly acid, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a sensitizing dye having absorption in a visible light region in the presence of an acid. The present technology also provides a hologram recording medium including at least a photocurable resin layer containing a heteropoly acid, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator, and a sensitizing dye having absorption in a visible light region in the presence of an acid. Furthermore, the present technology also provides a diffraction optical element using the hologram recording medium. Moreover, the present technology also provides an optical device, an optical component, and an image display device using the diffraction optical element.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensor, a photoelectric conversion film, an electron blocking layer, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic device that can appropriately photoelectrically convert light of specific wavelengths with high spectral characteristics and high photoelectric conversion efficiency. A photoelectric conversion layer or an electron blocking layer is configured with a photoelectric conversion film made of only a compound represented by Chemical Formula (1). The present technology can be applied to a solid-state image sensor.

Abstract: It is an object of the present technology to provide a semiconductor film capable of further improving photoelectric conversion efficiency. There is provided a semiconductor film containing semiconductor nanoparticles and sulfur, the semiconductor nanoparticles having a core-shell structure, the core portion containing a compound represented by the following general formula (1), the shell portion containing ZnS, the sulfur coordinating to the semiconductor nanoparticles. (Chem. 1) Cuy1Inz1A1(y1+3z1)/2 ??(1) (In the general formula (1), y1 satisfies a relationship of 0<y1?20, z1 satisfies a relationship of 0<z1?20, and A1 represents S, Se, or Te.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device of an embodiment of the technology includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a buffer layer provided between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and having an interface, to which an organic molecule or a halogen element is coordinated, with the photoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: A hologram recording composition includes at least: a photopolymerizable compound containing at least a first photopolymerizable monomer; binder resin that is inactive to photopolymerization; and a photopolymerization initiator. A change in polarity of the first photopolymerizable monomer by photopolymerization reduces compatibility with the binder resin of the photopolymerizable compound than that before polymerization, the compatibility of the photopolymerizable compound before the polymerization being high.

Abstract: A dispersion material includes: a plurality of semiconductor nanoparticles; and an adsorption molecule configured to selectively absorb light having a predetermined wavelength and adsorbed to each of the plurality of semiconductor nanoparticles, the adsorption molecule having a plane aligned to be non-parallel to a direction from a center portion of each of the plurality of semiconductor nanoparticles toward an adsorption portion of each of the plurality of semiconductor nanoparticles.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: A photoelectric conversion device of an embodiment of the technology includes: a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a buffer layer provided between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, and having an interface, to which an organic molecule or a halogen element is coordinated, with the photoelectric conversion layer.

Abstract: The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensor, a photoelectric conversion film, an electron blocking layer, an imaging apparatus, and an electronic device that can appropriately photoelectrically convert light of specific wavelengths with high spectral characteristics and high photoelectric conversion efficiency. A photoelectric conversion layer or an electron blocking layer is configured with a photoelectric conversion film made of only a compound represented by Chemical Formula (1). The present technology can be applied to a solid-state image sensor.

Abstract: A hologram recording composition includes at least: a photopolymerizable compound containing at least a first photopolymerizable monomer; binder resin that is inactive to photopolymerization; and a photopolymerization initiator. A change in polarity of the first photopolymerizable monomer by photopolymerization reduces compatibility with the binder resin of the photopolymerizable compound than that before polymerization, the compatibility of the photopolymerizable compound before the polymerization being high.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: An imaging apparatus that forms an image of a light beam transmitted through an imaging lens on an imaging element includes a laminated material that is provided on the imaging element, the light beam being transmitted through the laminated material, the laminated material being provided at a position at which an end portion of an upper surface of the laminated material allows an outermost light beam out of light beams to be transmitted therethrough, the light beams entering a pixel in an outer end portion of the imaging element in an effective pixel area, the position having a width Hopt.

Abstract: To provide an image capturing element and an image capturing apparatus in which an image capturing optical system can be thinned without degrading image capturing properties. An image capturing element according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an on-chip lens, a low refractive index layer and an infrared absorption layer. The on-chip lens is composed of a high refractive index material. The low refractive index layer is formed flatly on the on-chip lens and is composed of a low refractive index material. The infrared absorption layer is laminated above the low refractive index layer and is composed of an infrared absorption material.